floating point multiplication BUG in C (cc compiler)

Richard Flamsholt S0rensen richard at iesd.auc.dk
Mon Oct 22 21:28:30 AEST 1990


In article <4032 at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> The problem here is that a number like 0.64 *CANNOT* *POSSIBLY* be
> represented exactly in (finite-precision) floating-point.  At all.
> In *any* programming language. [...]

  At least when using *binary* logic as your hardware  ;-)

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/Richard Flamsholt
richard at iesd.auc.dk



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